lmsjcmrefform.txt

 THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
 JOURNAL OF COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICS
 Referee's Report Form

You have been sent, with a request for a referee's report, a paper which has been submitted for
publication by the LMS JCM. Please return your report by e-mail using this form.
Please note that the paper and its contents should be treated as confidential. Not all authors
want to publicize the preprint versions of their papers. 

There is also a latex version of this form, lmsjcmrefform.tex, which can be obtained from jcm@lms.ac.uk.

Please send the completed form to jcm@lms.ac.uk.



Please enter the following details.

Reference number or title of paper:

Author(s) names:

Your name:

Your e-mail address:

Date of completion of report:


1.  How strong is the case for publication of the paper?

Delete all but one of the following.
(a) non-existent
(b) weak
(c) reasonable
(d) good
(e) strong
(f) outstanding

2.  If the paper has serious defects, how strong would the case be if
a successful revision were carried out?

Delete all but one of the following.
(a) non-existent
(b) weak
(c) reasonable
(d) good
(e) strong
(f) outstanding
(g) question not applicable

3. GENERAL COMMENTS
Please include your review of the paper here. This part of the report may be passed on to the author(s)
and should include any criticism that might help the author to improve the paper. 



4. SPECIFIC CORRECTIONS
We don't ask our referees to look for typos, but any corrections that you add here will be welcome and
passed on to the authors.



5. COMMENTS FOR EDITORS
Please include your opinion of the quality of the paper here and specify which of the changes above that you
recommend to the author would be essential for the paper to reach the standard appropriate for the
journal.
These remarks will only be passed on to the Editorial Adviser and the Editors. 
However you should be aware that under Data Protection legislation the author can request to see them in which
case anything which might identify you as a referee will first be removed.



END OF QUESTIONS
On completion, please send this report to jcm@lms.ac.uk.

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EXPLANATORY NOTES AND GUIDELINES

The Editorial Board is anxious to reach decisions as quickly as
possible. Firstly, please acknowledge receipt of this form by
e-mail to jcm@lms.ac.uk and at the same time tell us your estimate of
when you will return the report. The default time, when we send out
the first reminder, is 8 weeks, but we can change this according
to your estimate. Please send your report by e-mail to jcm@lms.ac.uk.
This is a text version of the referee's form, and there is also a LaTeX
version, available on request from jcm@lms.ac.uk.

You should receive thanks and an acknowledgement from us within seven days of the
receipt of your report. If you do not hear from us, the report may have been lost in transit,
so please contact jcm@lms.ac.uk.

Here is some more general guidance on what we are looking for:

A referee should assess the originality, correctness, importance and
interest of an article. Ultimately, responsibility for correctness
lies with the author but we do ask that referees evaluate the
correctness of the major results. Editors also expect to receive
views on matters such as the balance between achievement and length,
how a paper compares with other work on related subjects published
in leading journals, and the quality of exposition. Objective and
carefully reasoned referees' reports are greatly valued by the
Editors. The LMS will respect the confidentiality of your identity
as a referee and you should not, under any circumstances,
communicate directly with the author(s) yourself. Under data
protection legislation, any part of the report may be requested by
the authors but information will only be given after all possible
features have been removed from the report that could identify you
as the referee. Parts of the report that are considered helpful to
the authors in preparing a better paper may be sent to them by the
Editors. 

If, for any reason, you are now unwilling to review the paper, please let us know
immediately. In this case, we would be grateful if you could suggest another suitable
referee.


On completion, please send this report to jcm@lms.ac.uk.